“My philosophy as a winemaker has always been not to worry about all the noise in the wine industry. Just make good wines and everything else will follow.”
NIGEL HOPKINS
WHEN you’re the fifth generation of a family that arrived in the Barossa in 1846 and has its own premium vineyard where you earned pocket money as a kid picking grapes, you’d think becoming a winemaker and running with that family heritage would be the most natural thing to do.
Not so, says Janelle Zerk, who grew up with her two sisters and brother on the family’s 60ha vineyard at Lyndoch. Unsure what to do when she
